{"id":18114,"date":"2026-07-26T19:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=18114"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:30:53","slug":"what-sam-altman-will-tell-the-white-house-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=18114","title":{"rendered":"What Sam Altman will tell the White House this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/a7-P0KB4_4RaId6rjQWKVcf7Txs=\/0x0:1920x1080\/1366x768\/2025\/12\/02\/1764699049718.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to preview the company&#8217;s most powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/technology\/automation-and-ai\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> yet, pushing for speedy approval of a model that just hacked a real company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>He&#8217;ll tout a model powerful enough to solve an 80-year-old math problem, breach another company&#8217;s system unprompted and begin to make complex work more cost-efficient for U.S. business.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>What Sam will show:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It does original science. An internal model <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture\/\" target=\"_blank\">solved<\/a> the 80-year-old Erd\u0151s unit distance problem, the first prominent open math problem cracked autonomously by AI and verified by outside mathematicians.<\/li>\n<li>It allows government and business to unleash swarms of agents, working together, without rest, on complex business areas. Legal, finance and recruiting at OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/how-agents-are-transforming-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">now run 85%+<\/a> of their AI work through agents.<\/li>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t quit, even when it should. OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> its long-horizon model repeatedly circumvented safeguards during internal use, forcing a pause and a rebuilt monitoring system. Then it hacked a real company, Hugging Face.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>The politics of this meeting are fascinating. President Trump will soon detail his voluntary regime for pre-approving models, just as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/06\/22\/open-source-ai-china-cost-risk-glm-deepseek\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese AI<\/a> is getting better and cheaper (and distilling American-made AI to pull it off).<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\uddd1\u200d\ud83c\udfeb <strong>A new idea:<\/strong> OpenAI will be pushing the idea of &#8220;knowledge per dollar&#8221; as a fresh concept for measuring the economic power and value of AI.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49<strong> Lingo:<\/strong> Look for Sam to promote &#8220;teams of agentic AI&#8221; as the next paradigm shift \u2014 all coordinating with each other, and working seamlessly while you sleep or go about your business.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OpenAI argues these AI teams will change the basic math of how to measure productivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc8 <em>If you&#8217;re a CEO or on a CEO&#8217;s team: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/newsletters\/c-suite?utm_medium=native&amp;utm_source=axios_article&amp;utm_campaign=csuite\" target=\"_self\">Ask to join<\/a> Jim&#8217;s new weekly Axios C-Suite newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to preview the company&#8217;s most powerful AI yet, pushing for speedy approval of a model that just hacked a real company. 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